Bottle-washing machine.



PATBNTED JULY 16, 1907.

W. J. CUNNINGHAM.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED we. e, 1902. nmnxwnn D30. 15, 1906.

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PATENTED JULY 16, 1907.

W. J, CUNNINGHAM.. BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 6, 1902. RENEWED no. 15, 1906.

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BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1907.

Application filed August 6,1902, Serial No. 118,620. Renewed December15, 1906. Serial No- 348.028.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. CUNNINGHAM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBottle-Washing Mach'mes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improvement in a bottle Washing machine,wherein I provide brushes for washing the bottles and means forrevolving the bottle.

I It further consists of means for conveying the water or othercleansing material to the interior of the bottle, and for automaticallycontrolling the flow thereof.

It, further consists of providing means for imparting a reciprocatingmotion to the bottle with respect to the holders thereof.

It further consists of novel details of construction all as will behereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a vertical sectional view of a bottle washingmachine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectionalview on line zz, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a partial sectional view,partial elevation of a portion of the machine on an enlarged scale.Figs. 4, 5 and 6 represent sectional views of the device employed forcontrolling the passage of the water into the bottles, the sectionsbeing taken on lines a-a Fig. 5; a:x Fig. 4 and yy Fig. 5, respectively.Fig. 7 represents a sectional view of a portion of the device with aportion of the bottle in position showing a brush adapted to clean themouth of the bottle. Fig. 8 represents a plan view of a device that maybe employed for adjusting certain portions of the machine,

' Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings: 1 designates a bottle washing machine havinga tank 2, which is adapted to contain or receive suitable cleansingmaterial, and which is provided with suitable journals 3 and 4 and inthe latter is mounted a sleeve 5 through which passes a shaft 6, whichlatter is adapted to revolve in said sleeve independent thereof,suitable mechanism being employed in order to impart motion to saidshaft in the present instance by means of a gear 7 connected with saidshaft to which motion is imparted by the small gear 8 carried on theshaft 9, which receives motion from the gear 10 which receives motionfrom gear 56 carried by the sleeve 5. Carried on said shaft is a wheel11, which is adapted to support and carry the bottles, said Wheel havinga plurality of passages 12 therethrough in the extremities of which aresecured the brushes 13, the shanks 14 of which are hollow'andcommunicate with the said passages 12, said shanks having openingstherethrough. In the journal 3 is a tube 15 having a passage 16therethrough, the end of which is closed but has the ports 17 leadingtherefrom at an angle to said passage 16, it being seen that the end ofsaid tube 15 is adapted to fit in the suitable bearings 18 on the wheel11 and that a plug 54 is situated between said tube 15 and the wheel 11,and that the said plug is secured to the tube 15 by the pin 55.

19 designates chambers or passages in the said plug, said passages 19communicating at the proper time with the interior of certain of thesaid passages 12, by the ports 20, which form a practical continuationof said passages 12, it being seen that only two of the ports 20 on eachside of the machine are open at onetime. A suitable pipe 21 leading froma suitable source of supply and communicating with the passage 16, isadapted to conduct water or other suitable cleansing material thereinto,said pipe 21 being controlled by the valve 22.

Suitably mounted on the sleeve 5 is a disk 23, having a gear 24 thereon,to which motion is imparted by a gear 25 carried on a shaft 26, whichcarries the second gear 27 meshing with a gear 28 carried on thc shaft29, to which motion is imparted in any suitable manner for example, bymeans of a belt passing around the pulleys 30, it being seen that inthis manner the disk is revolved independent of the shaft 6 and wheel11, said disk 23 being secured to the sleeve 5 imparts motion to thegear 56 which is carried on said sleeve and which meshing with the gear10 imparts motion thereto. The disk 23 has secured to its periphery arim 31, which is formed in sections and which sections are movable onsaid disk independent of each other, it being seen (more especially inFig. 3) that the said rim sections have slots 32 in which are seated thescrews or pins 33 which secure said rim sections to the disk, it beingfurther seen that a suitable piece of rubber 34 or other material issecured and moves with said rim sections and extends beyond the same.The edge of said rim sections 31 extending beyond the rim of the disk 23and said extending edge is adapted to contact, when within the tank 2,with rollers 35, which are carried by a movable bar 36 convenientlysupported as for example by brackets and movable thereon, said bar 36having suitable faces contacting with cams 37 carried by the bar 38which moves in suitable guides secured to the tank and which is adjustedand held in adjusted position by a thumb-nut 39 suitably connectedtherewith, said parts just described forming the adjusting device forthe disks 23.

4O designates a second disk provided with suitable rubber contactingdevices 41 and having a gear 42, which meshes with the gear 43, carriedon the shaft 44, which has also the gear 45 meshing with the gear 46,carried by the shaft 29.

47 designates suitable brushes which project from the disks 23 and 40.

48 designates brushes which are carried by the wheel 11, it being seenthat when the bottle is in position on the brushes 13 that the brushes48 and 47 contact with the exterior of said bottles at the proper time,and a brush 49 may also be employed in order to contact with the mouthof the bottle.

50 designates a track or apron on the interior of the tank and conformsto the course of travel which the bottle will take whenin suitableposition on the brushes, said track being provided with brushes 51, inorder to cleanse the bottom of the bottle.

If desired, the track 50 may be supplied with springs 52, in order toimpart a reciprocating motion to the bottles as they pass through thetank.

53 designates a lever which extends beyond the sides of the tank and issuitably connected with the disk 23 for example, in order to properlyadjust or manipulate the same.

The operation is as follows? Power being imparted to the shaft 29through the medium of the pulleys 30 and by reason of the gears 28, 27,25 and 24, motion is imparted to the disk 23 and the sleeve 5, andthrough the gears 56, 10, 8 and 7 to the shaft 6, which carries the diskand causes the wheel 11 to revolve. The bottles are now placed inposition on the brushes 13, which contact with the interior thereof,While the brushes 4'7 and 48 are on the exterior of the bottle as wellas the brushes 49. Through the gears 46, 45, 43 and 42, motion isimparted to the disk 40, it being seen that by the arrangement of thevarious gears that the disk' 40 revolves in an opposite direction fromthat of the revolution of the disk 23, and that the speed of revolutionof the disks is different, as well as, that of the revolution of theWheel 11, which carries with it the brushes 13 and the bottles thereon.The resilient materials 41 and 34 carried respectively by the said disks40 and 23 are so arranged as to contact with the bottle when the sameenter the tank during the revolution of the wheel 11, it being of courseunderstood that the said tank has been previously filled with suitablecleansing material. By reason of this contact of the resilient materialand of the different speeds of revolution, the bottles are caused torevolve while in contact with the brushes, the effect of which isevident. The track holds the bottles in position as the same arerevolving through the tank and by reason of the spring 52 the saidbottles are caused to reciprocate on the brushes. As the wheel 11revolves and carries with it the passages 12 and ports 20, it will beseen that the said ports during their revolution register With thechambers 19 in the stationary plug 54, and by proper manipulation of thevalve 22, the water or other suitable cleansing material enters throughthe passage 16 and through the ports 17 into the said chambers 19 andthrough such of the ports 20, as the same register with said chambersand thence through the passages 12 and the shanks 14, into.the bottles,it being seen that in this manner, cleansing material is automaticallysupplied to and cut off from the interior of the bottle, and as thewheel 11 revolves, the bottles can be removed as cleansed and new onesinserted in their place. By reason of the variation of the size of thebottles it may be found that the space between the disks 23 and 40 maybe either too large or too small, so that by proper manipulation of thethumb-nut 39, the rim sections on the disk 23 can be moved towards oraway from the disk 40, in order to properly contact with the bottle. Itwill be further seen that by having the adjustable device for the rimsection within the tank, that the bottles can be easily removed from thetop since the disks do not bear on the bottles at that point.

If desired I may employ the construction shown in Fig. 8 for bodilyadjusting the relative position of the the disks and co-acting parts.

It will be evident that various changes may be made in the art which maycome within the scope of my invention and I do not therefore desire tobe limited in every instance to the exact construction as herein shownand described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a bottle washing machine, brushes adapted to receive and hold thebottles, means for rotating said brushes and with them the bOttIes meansfor revolving said bottles with respect to said brushes, and means foradjusting the said means for revolving the bottles.

2. In a bottle washing machine, bottle holders adapted to receive thebottles, means for rotating said holders and with them the bottles,disks contacting with said bottles for revolving the same with respectto said bottle holders, and means for adjusting the position of saiddisks.

In a bottle washing machine, bottle holders adapted to receive thebottles, means for rotating said holders and with them the bottles,disks for rotating said bottles with respect to said bottle holders; andmeans for rotating said disks at a difierent speed from the speed ofrevolution of the bottle holders.

4. In a bottle washing machine, bottle holders adapted to receivethe'bottles, means for rotating the said holders and with them thebottles, disks suitably mounted and adapted to be rotatedin oppositedirections, and a movablerim on one of said disks which is adapted to beforced into contact with said bottles at the proper time in order torevolve the same with respect to the bottle holders. 7

5. In a bottle washing machine, a tank adapted. to contain cleansingmaterial, radial brushes suitably supported and adapted to hold thebottle and to rotate in said tank, and brushes suitably supported andadapted to rotate with respect to said tank independent of said brusheswhich hold the bottle. I

6. In a bottle washing machine, a tank adapted to contain cleansingmaterial, bottle holders adapted to receive the bottles, means forrotating said holders and with them the bottles, disks suitably mountedand adapted to be retated, a movablerim on one of said disks, andadjusting means which is adapted to bear against said rim when the sameis in the tank, in order to cause the same to contact with the bottle.

7. In a bottle washing machine, bottle holders adapted to receive thebottles, disks suitably mountedadjacent said bottle holders, and gearssuitably mounted and so arranged as to operate said bottle holders andsaid disks at a different rate of speed from each other.

8. In a bottle washing machine, bottle holders adapted to receive thebottles, means for rotating said holders and with them the bottles,means for revolving said bottles with respect to said holders, means foradjusting the said means for revolving the bottles, and means forconducting cleansing material to the interior of the'bottles when inposition-on the said holders.

9. In a bottle washing machine, bottle holders adapted to receive thebottles, means for rotating said holders and with them the bottles,means for revolving said bottles with respect to said holders, means foradjusting said means for revolving the bottles, and means for automatically controlling a supply of cleansing material for the in terior of thebottles.

10. In a bottle washing machine, a tank adapted to receive cleansingmaterial, bottle holders adapted to receive the bottles, means forrotating said holders and with them the bottles with respect to'saidtank, means for revolving said bottles with respect to said brushes,means for adjusting said means for revolving the bottles, and means forau- -tomatically controlling a supply of cleansing material. for

the interior of the bottles.

and means for supporting, rotating and revolving a bottle' adjacent saidbrushes.

12. A bottle washing machine comprising a rotary wheel, a brush radiallysecured on said wheel, a rotary device adjacent said wheel, a brush onsaid rotary device and a bottle-engaging portion on said rotary devicewhereby a bottle may be supported, revolved and brushed interiorly andexteriorly.

13. A bottle washing machine comprising a rotary wheel, a brush on saidwheel, a rotary device adjacent said wheel, a brush on said rotarydevice and means for introducing a liquid to the interior and exteriorof a bottle in contact with said brushes.

14. A bottle washing device comprising a tank, rotary mechanism forbrushing the inner and outer sides of botties in said tank and an areshaped track having a brush on its inner periphery in the path of thebottom of such bottles.

15. A bottle washing device comprising a tank, a rotary wheel, a brushon said wheel, a rotary bottle holding device and an are shaped track insaid tank having a brush on its inner periphery adapted to contact withthe bottom of a bottle secured on said rotary device.

16. A bottle washing device comprising a tank, radial brushes arrangedon a central wheel and adapted to receive the bottles, brush carryingdisks adapted to rotate on each side of the bottles and means foractuating said wheel and disks.

WILLIAM J. CUNNINGHAM.

Witnesses JOHN A. \VIEDERSIIEIM, WM. CANLll: \VIEDERSEIM.

